HUNGER GAMES QUOTES
Peeta Mellark: So what happens when we get back?
Katniss Everdeen: I don't know. I guess we try to forget.
Peeta Mellark: I don't wanna forget.
President Snow: Seneca... why do you think we have a winner?
Seneca Crane: [frowns] What do you mean?
President Snow: I mean, why do we have a winner? I mean, if we just wanted to intimidate the districts, why not
round up twenty-four of them at random and execute them all at once? Be a lot faster. ….
President Snow: Hope.
Seneca Crane: Hope?
President Snow: Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is
dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it's contained.
Seneca Crane: So...?
President Snow: So, CONTAIN it.
Haymitch Abernathy: [referring to Katniss and Peeta] Now, I can sell the star-crossed lovers from District 12.
Katniss Everdeen: We are NOT star-crossed lovers.
Haymitch Abernathy: It's a television show, and being in love with that boy might just get you sponsors which
could save your damn life.
Katniss Everdeen: Listen to them.
Peeta Mellark: Yeah. I just don't want them to change me.
Katniss Everdeen: How will they change you?
Peeta Mellark: I don't know. Turn me into something I'm not. I-I-I just don't want to be another piece in their
game, you know?
Katniss Everdeen: You mean you won't kill anyone?
Peeta Mellark: No... I mean, you know, I'm sure I would just like anybody else when the time came, but I just
keep wishing I could think of a way to show them that they don't own me. You know, if I'm gonna die, I wanna
still be me. Does that make any sense?
Katniss Everdeen: Yeah. I just can't afford to think like that. I have my sister.
Peeta Mellark: Yeah, I know.
Katniss Everdeen: Wanna see what I got you today? It's a mockingjay pin, to protect you. And as long as you
have it, nothing bad will happen to you, okay? I promise.
Haymitch Abernathy: I don't know how else to put this: Make sure they remember you.
Gale Hawthorne: What if they did? Just one year. What if everyone just stopped watching?
Katniss Everdeen: But they won't, Gale.
Gale Hawthorne: What if they did? What if we did?
Katniss Everdeen: Won't happen.
Gale Hawthorne: You root for your favorite, you cry when they get killed. It's sick.
Katniss Everdeen: Gale.
Gale Hawthorne: No one watches and they don't have a game. It's as simple as that. What?
Gale Hawthorne: We could do it, you know. Take off, live in the woods. Well, we do anyway.
Katniss Everdeen: They'd catch us.
Gale Hawthorne: Well, maybe not.
Katniss Everdeen: Cut out our tongues... or worse. We wouldn't make it five miles.
Primrose Everdeen: Just try to win. Maybe you can.
Katniss Everdeen: Of course. Maybe I can. I am smart, you know.
Primrose Everdeen: And you can hunt.
Katniss Everdeen: Exactly.
Primrose Everdeen: Wish I looked like you.
Katniss Everdeen: Oh, no. I wish I looked like YOU, little duck.
Peeta Mellark: I mean, she saved my life.
Katniss Everdeen: We saved each other.
President Snow: [voice over] War, terrible war. Widows, orphans, a motherless child. This was the uprising that
rocked our land. Thirteen districts rebelled against the country that fed them, loved them, protected them.
Brother turned on brother until nothing remained. And then came the peace, hard fought, sorely won. A people
rose up from the ashes and a new era was born. But freedom has a cost. When the traitors were defeated, we
swore as a nation we would never know this treason again. And so it was decreed that, each year, the various
districts of Panem would offer up, in tribute, one young man and woman to fight to the death in a pageant of
honor, courage and sacrifice. The lone victor, bathed in riches, would serve as a reminder of our generosity and
our forgiveness. This is how we remember our past. This is how we safeguard our future.
Katniss Everdeen: How many times is your name in today?
Gale Hawthorne: Forty-two. Guess the odds aren't exactly in my favor.
Effie Trinket: Two hundred miles per hour and you can barely feel a thing. I think it's one of the wonderful
things about this opportunity, that even though you're here and even though it's just for a little while, you get
to enjoy all of this.
President Snow: What a lovely pin.
Katniss Everdeen: Thank you. It's from my district.
Cato: [holding Peeta in a rear-arm choke] Go on! Shoot, then we both go down and you win. Go on. I'm dead
anyway. I always was, right? I didn't know that till now. How's that? Is that what they want? Huh?
Peeta Mellark: No...
Cato: I can still do this. I can still do this. One more kill. It's the only thing I know how to do - bring pride to
my district. Not that it matters.
Peeta Mellark: [to Katniss] You know what my mother said? She said "District 12 might finally have a winner,"
but she wasn't talking about me. She was talking about you.
Peeta Mellark: They have to have their victor.
Katniss Everdeen: No. They don't. Why should they?
Katniss Everdeen: He made me look weak.
Haymitch Abernathy: He made you look desirable, which, in your case, can't hurt, sweetheart.